High-level talks between Kyiv and Moscow take place at the Ukraine-Belarus border. Both sides agree to keep the negotiations going.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls the next 24 hours “crucial” for Ukraine.
Ukraine’s military claims the pace of Russia’s assault has slowed.

Civilian death toll now stands at 352 people, including 14 children, Ukraine’s health ministry says.
Moscow shifts its nuclear forces to a high alert footing.

European nations and Canada moved on Sunday to shut their airspace to Russian aircraft, an unprecedented step aimed at pressuring President Vladimir Putin to end his invasion of Ukraine, the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.

Aeroflot said it would cancel all flights to European destinations after E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the European Union had decided to close its airspace to Russian traffic.

The United States is considering similar action, but has yet to make a final decision, according to U.S. officials. The U.S. government said citizens should consider leaving Russia immediately on commercial flights, citing an increasing number of airlines cancelling flights as countries closed their airspace to Russia.

Switzerland will adopt all the sanctions that the European Union has imposed on Russian people and companies and freeze their assets to punish the invasion of Ukraine, the government said in a sharp deviation from the country’s traditional neutrality.

“We are in an extraordinary situation where extraordinary measures could be decided,” President and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis told a news conference in Bern on Monday, flanked by the finance, defence and justice ministers.

Only history would tell if such a move could happen again, he said. Swiss neutrality remained intact but “of course we stand on the side of Western values,” he added.

Switzerland also adopted financial sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, effective immediately, and closed its airspace to most Russian aircraft.

A Ukrainian government official tells CNN that Ukrainian intelligence indicates Belarusian “readiness to maybe participate directly” in the invasion of Ukraine, “in addition to allowing Russians to use their territory as well as letting them cross the border.”

A second source close to the Ukrainian government told CNN that in addition to the Ukrainian intelligence, the Biden administration has also conveyed to the Ukrainian government that Belarus is preparing to join the Russian invasion.

So far, however, US officials have not seen Belarusian troops “being readied to move into Ukraine” or “that they are moving or are in Ukraine,” a senior US Defense official told reporters Monday, adding that the forces inside Ukraine are Russian.

The intelligence about Belarus’ potential participation in the invasion sparked fresh concern within the Biden administration. A senior administration official said the White House is watching actions taken by Belarus closely and is prepared to levy more sanctions on the country. In a sign of the escalating turmoil in the region, the US announced Monday that it was suspending operations at its embassy in Belarus.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a major environmental case that could hobble the ability of federal agencies to regulate air pollution — and potentially, much more.

The case has been years in the making. It began in 2009 when the Obama administration faced an unpleasant reality. Climate change is a problem too big to address without an international agreement, but “the other nations would not do anything unless the Unites States went first, and showed it was serious,” says environmental law professor Richard Lazarus.

So, the Obama administration set about doing that, first getting the auto industry to reduce carbon emissions, and then addressing the country’s single largest carbon emissions problem—coal fired power plants. Instead of regulating the plants themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency set strict carbon limits for each state and encouraged the states to meet those limits by transitioning to alternative sources of energy—wind, solar, hydro-electric, and natural gas. The goal of the plan was to produce enough electricity to satisfy U.S. demand in a way that lowered greenhouse emissions.

Former President Donald Trump, who hinted Saturday night that he will make another try for the presidency in 2024, is the favorite of conservatives who represented the hard-core right of the party, with 59% saying Sunday they preferred Trump as the GOP nominee.
A straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, found that Trump was far and away the first choice for attendees at the four-day event, which closed Sunday. That’s up from 55% who said they preferred Trump at last year’s conference.

The next closest contender was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, with 28% support. DeSantis has fashioned himself as a sort of successor to Trump, attacking mask and vaccine mandates and embracing culture war issues popular with conservatives. DeSantis is expected t sign a “don’t say gay” bill in Florida that would ban discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in primary schools.
Former Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo garnered just 2%support. Other contenders got just 1%.
With Trump taken out of the mix, DeSantis becomes the heir apparent, with 61% support from conference attendees. In that survey without Trump, Pompeo got just 6% support.

YouTube is temporarily suspending Russian state channels from earning ad revenue on its platform, including the Kremlin-backed news broadcaster RT, it said Saturday, following similar actions taken by Facebook parent Meta and Twitter, and the Google-owned video-sharing site is also restricting users in Ukraine from accessing the Russian channels.

Citing “extraordinary circumstances” in Ukraine, YouTube said it is pausing “several Russian channels affiliated with recent sanctions” from profiting on its platform and limiting recommendations to those channels.

YouTube said it has restricted access to Russian channels, including RT, in Ukraine in response to the Ukrainian government’s earlier request to block the “propagandist” Russian channels on the platform.

Todd and Jeff Delmay say they believe their 12-year-old son Blake’s public school in Hollywood, Florida has been a welcoming place. But they fear that may soon change as HB 1557, what critics call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, moves to the Florida Senate for further debate.

“If children are not feeling that they are accepted or who they are and the family they come from isn’t accepted, it will have an impact on them,” Todd Delmay told CBS News’ Manuel Bojorquez.

The Republican-backed Parental Rights in Education bill states that “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3.” Parents could sue school districts for violations.